How do you spell 'winner'? Z-I-N O-O

Fifth-grader wins Ottawa County Spelling Bee

5:24 AM,
Feb. 8, 2013

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Written by

Catharine Hadley
Staff writer

Zin Oo won the 20th annual Ottawa County Spelling Bee with an appropriately festive word: "confetti."

Thirty-one Ottawa County students in fifth through eighth grades qualified for the event, which was Thursday night at the Performing Arts Center at Port Clinton High School. The top three contenders attend Danbury Middle School.

Oo, a fifth-grader, went head-to-head with Cory Bowser, an eighth-grader, for several rounds at the end of the competition. The second-place finisher was thrown by the word "postmortem" in the 17th round. Oo correctly spelled "jaguar," then finished with the ...